Some people mistake the DA’s insistence on an investigation into the R500,000 Bosasa payment to Cyril Ramaphosa’s Nasrec election campaign for a personal crusade against the man. Yet this not about going after one man. It is about fighting to dismantle a system of patronage that has poisoned our state and economy over the past two decades.
The system works like this: the ANC-in-government (for example the department of correctional services, the department of mineral resources) gives lucrative tenders to the ANC-in-business (for example Bosasa, Guptas, Chancellor House) which in return funds the ANC-as-political-party (one or both factions)...
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